Irving Finkel
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But most people who live crammed in the cities live a very, very artificial life where the principles which they regard as ineluctably crucial are not ineluctably crucial.
They're not in
You know, one example is this ghastly thing on mobiles where you get a short clip from a real program.
I think it's utterly, utterly wicked.
So you have children all over the world who cannot articulate, spell, or make meaning clear using the best, most literary and most beneficial language that's ever been created, which is English, to save their lives.
And they use a word, I'll give you an example.
Yeah.
Right?
Like I went.
Like I went.
Like I went.
Yeah.
So it's difficult to define that grammatically.
Difficult, like I should have gone.
Where I went or I should have gone means to speak.
Now, how would it be if when we see the verb to go in Sumerian, it actually meant to speak?
How, where would we be?
Where would we be?
Yes, there were dialects.
There were words that sailors used.